A new system of municipal administration for Palestine will be put into effect on January 1, it was reliably reported here today. It will take most of the administrative power out of the hands of the elected mayors and councils of the cities and towns and give it to a town clerk appointed by the Palestine government and responsible to it.
The decision of the government to supersede the local administrations with officials of its own selection was believed inspired by the municipal scandals charged against the administratition of Ragheb Bey Nashashibi, Mayor of Jerusalem, who was defeated for re-election recently but who has brought his fight for control of the city government into the courts.
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Nashashibi is protesting the election of Arab members of the oppositionist party to the city council from three Arab wards. Pending court decision on his charges of election fraud, the new council and administration has not been seated.
The six Jews elected to the municipal council presented to High Commissioner Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope through District Governor James E. F. Campbell yesterday a memorandum requesting that the newly-elected councillors
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